sugar burn per activity versus calories burn per activity

[RamilG]

Hi Fitbit users. I am certain that there are diabetics out there using fitbit to maintain a healthy lifestyle. My question is there a correlation between calories burn per activity versus sugar burn per activity. I still notice a spike in my morning glucose level regardless if I meet my calories intake the night before. 

[HelenaFitbit]

Hello @RamilG ! Welcome to the Forums 

I have found plenty of Diabetic-related groups that may be able to assist with this particular inquiry, like these:

1. Diabetic & Determined
2. Type 2 Diabetes
3. Diabetes Let's Walk
4. Diabetic Users
5. Diabetic Warriors
6. Conquering Diabetes
7. Diabetics (Type 1/Insulin-Dependent)
8. Diabetes Type 3 - Up All Night
9. Diabetics
10. And many more here

Hope this helps! Let me know if you have any questions. 

[PaleoCrossfit]

This is a fantastic question. I am not diabetic, but I do have chronic hypoglycemia, so this would be very informative to know!

[Heybales]

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@RamilG wrote:

Hi Fitbit users. I am certain that there are diabetics out there using fitbit to maintain a healthy lifestyle. My question is there a correlation between calories burn per activity versus sugar burn per activity. I still notice a spike in my morning glucose level regardless if I meet my calories intake the night before. 

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The higher the calorie burn, the more carbs was a % of it.

The rate for you personally totally depends on fitness level.

Meaning 2 people could run the same pace, with the same mass. They would be burning the same number of calories. Lets say the same HRmax too.

The out of shape person would have a higher HR, and be burning a bigger % of carbs.

The fit person would have a lower HR, and be burning a smaller % of carbs.

It would of course feel hard for the out of shape person, and easy for the fit person.

Their muscles would likely feel the workout differently too, nice overload for unfit person so body feels the need to improve. Fit person this could have been a maintenance level run, not a workout that required improvement by the body.

So the point is - really impossible to figure that out.

There is some rough guidelines, and you'll notice it includes nothing regarding fitness level, as expressed by VO2max. So as stated above - realy rough.

http://www.brianmac.co.uk/esource.htm

The RER as explained there is nice to understand the principle of.

That being said, studies have shown a benefit to diabetics doing a workout 1-2 x weekly that really drains the glycogen stores - so a long circuit training would be full body drain on muscles.